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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
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Treatise › Chapter 8: God incomparable in his Attributes, in his Knowledge and Faithfulness.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
God knoweth all things from everlasting, before ever the World had a Being: Men and Angels may know what is, when it is, but cannot know it as God doth, before it was; Acts 15.18. Known to God are all his Works, from the beginning of the World. Before he erected the curious frame of the World, he knew all the Rooms and Furniture in it, all the motions and actions of all the Inhabitants of it. He doth by one pure, simple, undivided, eternal act of his Understanding know all things perfectly, immediately, distinctly, every moment.
6. God is incomparable in his Truth and Faithfulness: Truth is that Attribute in God, whereby he is in himself, as he reveals himself to be, and in his sayings and doings, as he speaketh and acteth.
God is Truth in himself, and Truth towards his Creatures: He is Truth in himself, 1. As he truly is, and really existeth: Hence he is styled the true God, Jer 10.10. John 17.3. in opposition to Idols, or false gods, 1 Thess. 1.9. So he is truly infinite, truly all-sufficient, truly eternal, truly immutable, &c. 2. As he is the unchangeable Archetype ⟨p. 85⟩and Idea of all true things without himself, so all created things are true, as they answer their patterns in his mind. 3. In his immanent Actions, as his Decrees, and eternal Resolutions, are all certain, and attain a punctual accomplishment, Psal. 33.11. He is never deceived nor disappointed in his Purposes.